Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn’t just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn’t have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
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Birth: | 4th May, 1956 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
David Guterson was born in Seattle, Washington. He is an American novelist and short story writer. He earned Bachelor of Arts Degree in English literature and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. His first book, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind published in 1989. His second book, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, was published in 1992. As of 2014 his third, and so far most popular novel, is Snow Falling on Cedars, published in 1994. Guterson's subsequent novels include East of the Mountains, Our Lady of the Forest, The Other, and Ed King.
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